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Agent capabilities increase in direct proportion to demandAs the AI agents grow, they obtain new capabilities, with rising demand from other users on Cronos zkEVM unlocking new features. As an agent reaches the fixed market cap of $127,100, it becomes capable of engaging in Telegram chats. It cultivates a liquidity pool on Cronos’ DEX, alleviating trading and discoverability in the ecosystem.Additional features are unlocked as agents attain milestone-based

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Large language models (LLMs) have proven to be versatile tools across various domains, including natural language processing, biological studies, and chemical research. In a new paper Autonomous chemical research with large language models, a research team from Carnegie Mellon University and Emerald Cloud Lab introduces an innovative system named Coscientist. This intelligent agent, powered by multiple LLMs, autonomously designs, plans, and executes comple

Robot walks on concrete paving slabs. Credit: Joseph Humphreys, University of Leeds. Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to different, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, in what is believed to be a world first. The work has been published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The pioneering technology allows the robot to change the way it moves autonomously, rather than ha

Trust meets efficiencyWhile AI brings intelligent automation and data-driven decision-making, blockchain offers security, decentralisation, and transparency. Together, they can address each other’s limitations, offering new opportunities in digital and real-world industries. Blockchain provides a tamper-proof foundation and AI brings adaptability, plus the ability to optimise complex systems.Together, the two promise to enhance scalability, security, and p

Harnessing natural language processing powered by Opera’s AI Composer Engine, Browser Operator interprets written instructions from users and executes corresponding tasks within the browser. All operations occur locally on a user’s device, leveraging the browser’s own infrastructure to safely and swiftly complete commands. If Browser Operator encounters a sensitive step in the process, such as entering payment details or approving an order, it pauses and r

Apple tightens macOS disk access as AI agents become more powerful Apple plans to introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing growing privacy risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Users will need to take explicit action to grant apps this permission. The company has not specified a rollout date or detailed how the controls will work. Apple’s APIs include controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Ac

Credit: Markus Spiske from Pexels There is a growing and urgent need to address global food insecurity. This urgency is underscored by reports from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which states that nearly 828 million people suffer from hunger worldwide. Climate change is further escalating these issues, disrupting traditional farming systems and emphasizing the need for smarter, resource-efficient solutions. But imagine a futur

Companies want autonomous IT operations but hesitate to let AI act alone Ninety percent of companies want to move toward autonomous IT operations over the next two years, with agentic AI, software that plans and carries out multi-step tasks on its own, doing the work. Yet 77 percent say their own organization hesitates to let AI make an operational decision without a human approving it. Most of those companies mean autonomy with a person at the approval st

Most high-severity cloud security findings are downgraded once an AI agent checks the environment Cloud security platforms turn every failed rule into a finding, and those findings pile up in queues sorted by severity. Research from Sola Security tested what happens to that order when each finding gets checked against the environment where it lives. The researchers, Leon Goldberg and Gal Engelberg, built an AI agent that re-grades findings raised by third-

OpenAI says that users are fully in control of the purchases, as they’re able to review the items, the total, and the payment card that will be used to complete the transaction before the checkout occurs. In addition, users will approve the purchases directly with a security check like Face ID or a fingerprint, which creates a record of their transaction. The addition comes as consumer-facing AI tools are working to find the right product-market fit, in te

Getty / Futurism OpenAI unveiled its Atlas AI browser this week, and it’s already catching heat. Cybersecurity researchers are particularly alarmed by its integrated “agent mode,” currently limited to paying subscribers, that can attempt to do online tasks autonomously. Two days after OpenAI unveiled Atlas, competing web browser company Brave released findings that the “entire category of AI-powered browsers” is highly vulnerable to “indirect prompt inject

Forgotten AI agents may still access sensitive company data AI agents that have not run recently retain credentials and connections to company systems, according to Arrakis Security’s 2026 Autonomous Agents Threat Report. About 76% of enabled agents examined had not run in 60 days, leaving access available through inactive software. Agents by exposure family (Source: Arrakis Security) The analysis covered thousands of agents in customer production environm

Product showcase: Stellar Cyber’s ISOC platform provides full-cycle architecture An AI SOC that starts with somebody else’s alert is already too late. Stellar Cyber collects and normalizes telemetry, detects suspicious activity, correlates evidence, builds cases, investigates incidents, triages findings, and drives response from the same security architecture. That gives people and AI access to the evidence behind the alert – not just the alert itself. Ful

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images With more money flowing into AI development than ever before, web browsers powered by autonomous “AI agents” are hitting the market like crazy. One of the most popular is Comet, offered by the startup Perplexity. Though Comet promises to organize your emails, summarize webpages, and automate your searches, it’s not without some glaring ethical and security flaws. And if you are reckless e

Longtime fears of AI going rogue are starting to feel more real, so much so that some lawmakers now want powerful AI systems to come with an emergency kill switch. U.S. Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, introduced a bipartisan bill Thursday that would require major AI companies to make sure they have the ability to throttle, suspend, or shut down their most powerful AI. The so-called AI Kill Switch Act would al

Several AI security market categories are headed for bigger platforms In this interview with Help Net Security, Jonathan Care, Lead Analyst and Practice Lead AI at KuppingerCole Analysts, compares AI security startups to the early fraud market he helped define at Gartner. He explains which categories will survive as products and which will become features inside bigger platforms. Care talks about Q3 funding going to fewer, larger rounds, Israel’s share of